Job Description

Make Cologne a better place to live!
At the Office for Landscape Conservation and Green Spaces we are looking for an engineer (m/f/d) for the field of basic and landscape planning with immediate effect.



The Office for Landscape Conservation and Green Spaces deals with all planning tasks relating to urban green spaces. As part of the team, you will be involved in urban land-use planning and building permits with regard to green planning issues, where, among other things, compensatory measures are designed, new parks and green spaces are developed and green infrastructure is secured.

We protect and develop Cologne's open spaces, integrate ecological measures and update Cologne's landscape plans for this purpose.



YOUR FUTURE TASKS:

You...

- professionally review applications for permission to fell urban trees, inform the responsible district council about planned felling and issue the felling permit

- prepare statements on preliminary building inquiries and building applications in the context of which applications for felling permits for urban trees are to be submitted

- check compliance with green stipulations from development plans in the planning permission process and formulate conditions and instructions on tree protection, securing green and open spaces, request greening plans and check their content

- advise clients and citizens in building permit procedures in which the tree protection statutes of the City of Cologne are affected

- professionally check the stipulations in development plans regarding the charging of costs, allocate areas, prepare the costs and communicate the costs to be charged

- coordinate the office's own construction measures in development plans relevant to cost collection, register budget funds, calculate the production, completion and development maintenance costs of compensatory measures

- digitize the areas for the cost survey and record the designated areas for interventions or compensation

- clarify land matters for the internal land pool with compensation measures, supervise the implementation of measures and manage the land pool, advise clients and citizens on the use of urban compensation areas, market the areas, accompany the conclusion of contracts to refinance the measures



YOUR PROFILE:

You have a degree (university of applied sciences diploma or bachelor's degree) in landscape conservation, landscape ecology, landscape planning, environmental planning or comparable



In addition, the following is important to us:

You...

- already have knowledge and experience in the field of tree protection statutes, building permits or urban land use planning

- have a willingness to learn and perform as well as an entrepreneurial mindset and approach

- act in a goal-oriented manner, are flexible and also accept appointments outside normal working hours, are willing to cooperate and are loyal and have integrity

- are a communicative and argumentative personality with a confident manner

- have gender competence and a belief in diversity



WE OFFER YOU:

- not only a financially secure job with all the benefits of the public sector, but also a regular working week of 39 hours for employees. Employment is possible on a part-time and full-time basis.

- A varied, future-oriented job for the citizens of our city

- Work-life balance thanks to flexible working hours and home office options

- Structured onboarding as well as career and further training opportunities

- 30 days' annual leave (plus time off on Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and Shrove Monday) and a company sports club

- Regular pay rises, an annual special payment, an annual performance-related payment and an attractive company pension

The position is valued according to pay group 11 of the collective agreement for the public sector (TVöD)
.
The salary range in pay group 11 (TVöD-VKA) is between €4,153.35 (experience level 1) and €6,154.45 (experience level 6).

You can find a current pay table, for example, at https://oeffentlicher-dienst.info/tvoed/vka

Your professional experience will be taken into account when assigning you to the experience level within the pay group, insofar as this is possible under collective bargaining law.



Would you like to find out more about the benefits of working for the City of Cologne?

You can find more reasons that speak for us as an employer at: http://www.stadt-koeln.de/benefits

Ms. Kwiek will be happy to answer any questions about the process on 0221 221-34061.

Mr. Faber, phone 0221 221-23673, will be happy to answer any questions you may have about the job description.



YOUR APPLICATION:

If you also want to make Cologne a better place to live, please apply as follows, quoting the reference number 0371/25-VeKw by 29.06.2025 at the latest:



City of Cologne - The Lord Mayor Human Resources and Administration Management Applicant Center (114/11) Willy-Brandt-Platz 2 50679 Cologne



or preferred:



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We actively promote gender equality and the diversity of all people in the administration.

We therefore welcome applications from people of color, people of all nationalities, religions and world views, sexual orientations and gender identities, all age groups and people with disabilities. We also welcome applications from people with a family history of migration, especially a history of flight.

The City of Cologne has been awarded the TOTAL E-QUALITY - Commitment to Equal Opportunities for Women and Men award as well as the additional DIVERSITY award and the audit berufundfamilie - Compatibility of Work and Family certificate.

In the STEM (mathematics, information technology, natural sciences, technology) professional field, women are expressly addressed and encouraged to apply.

We offer flexible working hours and forms of work, which can also be combined with mobile working. These are geared towards different lifestyles and personal and work-related concerns.

As a public employer, we support the goal of integrating disabled, severely disabled and equivalent people into working life with our inclusion agreement. Severely disabled and equivalent applicants are given special consideration if they are equally qualified.

Contact Details

Stadt Köln
Frau Kwiek

Willy-Brandt-Platz, 2
50679  Köln
Deutschland

0221 221-34061

email@rheinsatz.de
www.stadt-koeln.de

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